According to Dealbook, the menu included: "Maine lobster salad with roasted beets, duos of Black Angus beef, braised short ribs with young spinach, and roasted tenderloin with stuffed potato and hen of the woods."

The meal was prepared by Daniel Boulud himself.

The dinner was part of Obama's plan to win back the group of financiers that helped him cruise past McCain in 2008, many of whom were turned off by the President's labeling of them as "fat cats" near the beginning of his term.

Obama is hoping to win over hedge fund titans who were previously bundlers for the Clintons, as well as a much more challenging task -- winning Republicans. Though Democrats won't be so easily wooed this time around, apparently...

"One Democratic financier invited to this month's dinner... said it was ironic that the same president who once criticized bankers as "fat cats" would now invite them to dine at Daniel, where the six-course tasting menu runs to $195 a person," the Times reported earlier this month. "The donor declined the invitation."